What does it even mean to be aware of something, to be conscious? Why do the vast majority of people only have one consciousness? Will computers ever experience consciousness? On this Bingecast, Dr. Robert J. Marks and Dr. Angus Menuge discuss these questions and more.

Show Notes

• 00:01:36 | Introducing Dr. Angus Menuge
• 00:07:02 | Near-death experiences
• 00:10:32 | The history of the mind-body problem
• 00:16:17 | Popular mind-body problem models discussed today
• 00:18:19 | Epiphenomenal thoughts
• 00:22:56 | Dr. Menuge’s take on the mind-body problem
• 00:29:29 | Will artificial intelligence ever be able to duplicate the functions of a human?
• 00:34:17 | Phenomenal consciousness and qualia
• 00:40:23 | Experiencing vision and color
• 00:43:33 | Problems for panpsychism
• 00:45:46 | Integrated information theory
• 00:51:19 | Quantum consciousness
• 00:58:31 | Testing consciousness in artificial intelligence
• 01:01:48 | Unity of consciousness
• 01:03:38 | Split-brain operations
• 01:05:40 | Split personalities
• 01:07:33 | Too many thinkers problem
• 01:11:14 | Why don’t bodily changes generate a different consciousness?
• 01:15:12 | Elon Musk’s Neuralink

Additional Resources

• Dr. Angus Menuge at Evangelical Philosophical Society.
• The Inherence of Human Dignity, vol. 1: Foundations of Human Dignity edited by Dr. Angus Menuge
• The Inherence of Human Dignity, vol. 2: Law and Religious Liberty, edited by Dr. Angus Menuge
• Religious Liberty and the Law, edited by Dr. Angus Menuge
• The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism, co-edited by Dr. Angus Menuge
• Rene Descartes, French philosopher and mathematician
• Aristotle, Greek philosopher
• Thomas Aquinas, 13th century philosopher and Catholic priest
• Thomas Hobbes, 17th century English philosopher
• Jaegwon Kim, Korean-American philosopher
• Richard Swinburne, professor of philosophy at Oxford University
• The Illusion of Conscious Will by Daniel Wagner
• Ned Block, professor of philosophy and psychology at New York University
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher
• Lynne Rudder Baker, professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts
• Frank Jackson’s Knowledge Argument
• Gregory Chaitin, Argentine-American mathematician and computer scientist
• Christof Koch, German-American neuroscientist
• Paul Churchland, Canadian philosopher
• Roger Penrose, British mathematician and Nobel Prize winner
• John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and polymath
• Henry Stapp, American mathematical physicist
• Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and cosmologist
• Thomas Nagel, professor of philosophy and law at New York University
• Michael Egnor at Discovery.org
• Tim Bayne, philosopher of mind and cognitive science
• Sybil (1976)
• Neuralink
• Elon Musk, entrepreneur and engineer